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NHS to build ‘online sharing and collaboration’ platform for health and social care sector
Two-year project to cost up to £1.8m
‘Policy mandarins don’t get that engaged in reform’ – Francis Maude
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‘There is a strong suspicion that optimism is designed to get project approval’
NAO head claims many government programmes are dogged by unrealistic costings and creeping scope...
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Is the public sector ready for the end of Windows 7?
Today marks two months until Microsoft ceases support for its decade-old operating system. PublicTechnology discovers that government is tight lipped about how widely the technology remains in use across Whitehall
Defra looks to get a grip on pig performance data
Department seeks supplier to help it bring together information
CCS sets up £166m purchasing system for IT testing
Procurement agency seeks suppliers for quality assurance vehicle
GDS: ‘Cloud first is here to stay’
Digital agency pledges to ‘keep the policy as it stands’
Government delays Huawei 5G decision until after election
Digital secretary confirms that the UK’s next government will be the one to make the call on whether to allow the Chinese vendor to help build the country’s telecoms infrastructure
Government review finds Hacker House grant award was ‘appropriate’
Audit finds no impropriety in funding given to firm run by PM’s friend, but DCMS minister says she intends to ‘ensure that processes are strengthened’
Wirral Borough Council shops for £4m WAN upgrade
Supplier sought for infrastructure refresh
MoD seeks £200k operations chief to spearhead transformation
COO position comes with a remit to oversee change across people, procurement, technology, and support
Microsoft beats Amazon to $10bn Pentagon cloud contract
Department of Defense hails ‘important step’ in modernisation of systems
Highlands and Islands get £3m full-fibre boost
High uptake sees extra money invested
NHS Digital picks 69 suppliers for £500m GP IT framework
New contract has four times as many providers as outgoing deal, but it is not clear how long it will take for all systems to be available to buy
Government shut down 600 social media accounts run by prison inmates last year
MoJ implements a range of measures to combat illicit use of mobiles
Blackburn looks to business intelligence to support transformation
Council seeks to undertake proof-of-concept exercise to bring together data
Is procurement a friend or foe for local government transformation?
Buying processes should be seen as an enabler of innovation, rather than a barrier, according to Georgina Maratheftis of techUK
Australian Government plans beefed-up cloud marketplace
Country’s Digital Transformation Agency proposes creation of new platform
University of Manchester to launch £50m cloud framework
Institution to create deal covering AWS, Microsoft, and Google environments
MoD to set up £1.5bn framework for digital and IT contractors
Ministry to create commercial vehicle for accessing external expertise needed to support IT and digital programmes over the next five years
HMRC spends another £1.2m to finish O365 rollout
Department gets green light for third round of spending on software to complete deployment
Home Office seeks £3m partner to support digital response to ‘unprecedented number of challenges’
Department issues contract notice for organisation that can provide an array of commercial and project-management capabilities
Suppliers picked for major Yorkshire and North East police IT framework
Four resellers chosen for potential £40m deal to provide all hardware and software
HMRC floats £24m in contracts to support key digital platforms
Up to four suppliers to be appointed to deals to provide services for digital tax and transaction-monitoring systems